- Torbati, Atlas. 2025. Hidden Wounds, Unheard Voices: An Exploration of Men as Victims of IPV during and Post-COVID-19. Sexuality and Gender Studies Journal, 3(1), pp. 19-38. ISSN 2783-7130
- Torbati, Atlas. 2023. Iranian Zoomers, A Generation of Bravery, Hope and Invincibility - Discover Society. Discover Society: New Series, 3(1),
- Torbati, Atlas. 2022. Power, Belonging, and Respectability: Classed, Gendered, and Racial Selves among Iranian Migrants in the United Kingdom. Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, 18(2), pp. 311-319. ISSN 1552-5864
Dr Atlas Torbati
Atlas Torbati is a Senior lecturer on MA Understanding Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse (UDVSA) at 51黑料网.
Staff details
Position
Senior Lecturer - MA UDVSA STaCS senior tutor
School
Subject
Social, Individual and Community Wellbeing
Atlas Torbati is a Senior lecturer on MA Understanding Domestic Violence and Sexual Abuse (UDVSA) at 51黑料网. She is also a senior tutor at the Department of Social, Therapeutic and Community Studies. She has extensive experience in teaching the Theories of Gender-based violence, Groupwork studies, National and International Policies of Gender-based Violence and Social Research Methods. Atlas has completed her PhD study at the University of Bristol and has contributed to various research projects at the Centre for Gender and Violence Research (CGVR). Her PhD focused on exploring the perceptions of Iranian men to sexual violence in the UK diaspora.
Publications and research outputs
Edited Book
- Torbati, Atlas, ed. 2026. The Weaponisation of Sexual Violence in Conflict. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN 9781032989457
Book Section
- Torbati, Atlas. 2026. Gendered Violence and Resistance in the Islamic Republic of Iran. In: Atlas Torbati, ed. The Weaponisation of Sexual Violence in Conflict. Abingdon: Routledge, pp. 92-105. ISBN 9781032989457
- Fathi, Mastoureh and Torbati, Atlas. 2024. Migrant Respectability: An Intersectional Bourdieuan Approach to Iranian Migrants鈥� Experiences of Class and Religion. In: Ba艧ak Akkan; Julia Hahmann; Christine Hunner-Kreisel, and Melanie Kuhn, eds. Overlapping Inequalities in the Welfare State: Strengths and Challenges of Intersectionality Framework. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, pp. 69-82. ISBN 9783031522260
Article
- Torbati, Atlas and Fathi, Mastoureh. 2026. Ethical dilemmas or uneasy situations? Using a dialogical reflective method to address intersectional challenges in research conducted by female researchers with male participants. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, ISSN 1364-5579
- Asadi Zeidabadi, Pardis; Torbati, Atlas and Khatibi-Hill, Dorreh. 2026. Women, War, and Narrative Control: Gendered Propaganda and Digital Resistance in Iran. Orient, 67(3), pp. 43-48. ISSN 0030-5227
- Torbati, Atlas. 2025. Hegemonic Islamic masculinities: Contextualising a new form of hegemonic masculinities in the Iranian diaspora in the UK. Irish Journal of Sociology, 33(3), pp. 210-230. ISSN 0791-6035
Broadcast
- Torbati, Atlas. 2025. Capturing Migrant Mental Health Experiences Through Visual Diaries: An Interdisciplinary Perspective.
- Torbati, Atlas and Abassian, Cyrus. 2021. Men and Suicide, a Hidden Tragedy.
Thesis
- Torbati, Atlas. 2019. Perspectives of Iranian men to sexual violence in the UK. Doctoral thesis, University of Bristol
Research Interests
- Gender-based violence within national and international contexts
- Coercive control, cultural and structural violence within Muslim context
- Masculinities, sexual violence and diaspora
- Identity politics